Erste Bank Open: Tsitsipas and Sinner join youthful line-up in Vienna’s second round
The biggest two names in Vienna this week, world No1 Novak Djokovic, and No3 and defending champion Dominic Thiem, were both tested in their openers.…
Marianne Bevis Archives: 10/2020
Erste Bank Open: Novak Djokovic closes on year-end No1 with opening Vienna win
It is a very long time since world No1 Novak Djokovic featured in the draw of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, one of the…
European Open 2020: Rising star Ugo Humbert denies Dan Evans in Antwerp marathon
Antwerp has been a successful tournament for British players in recent years. Things looked very different for Kyle Edmund in 2018 when he won his…
Andrey Rublev wins fourth title of 2020 in St Petersburg to move closer to Nitto ATP Finals
The rankings in men’s tennis this year were certainly thrown a curved ball by the coronavirus pandemic. Points won for the 12 months since the…
ATP tour heads into home straight with just 10 tournaments left on schedule
With a Major and a Masters on both hard courts and clay squeezed into barely seven weeks—and with considerable success—in this back-to-front tennis season, the…
Andy Murray joins Federer and Nadal in new-look ATP Player Council
The ATP has announced the names of the four new players who have been elected to the ATP Player Council: Andy Murray, Felix Auger-Aliassime, John…
French Open 2020: Rampant Rafael Nadal beats Djokovic for win No100, title No13, Major No20
Should there really have been any doubt about the final line-up at this belated French Open in a Covid stricken Paris? Did the results in…
French Open 2020: Super Iga Swiatek sweeps past Sofia Kenin for debut title in Paris
How many of the lucky 1,000 Roland Garros ticket holders would, two weeks ago, have predicted the final line-up for this year’s cold, autumnal French…
French Open 2020: Rampant Rafael Nadal into 13th Paris final, to face Djokovic for 56th time
From the start of this unusual, and unusually late French Open, things have not been their usual sunny selves. Of course the weather in the…
French Open 2020: Teenage Iga Swiatek to play her first Major final vs Australian champion Kenin
In this extraordinary French Open, one in which No1 and defending champion Ash Barty, the US Open champion and No3 Naomi Osaka, No7 and former…
French Open 2020: Stefanos Tsitsipas beats rival Rublev to reach first Roland Garros semi-final
Dominic Thiem, the runner-up at Roland Garros for the last two years—victim to, as have been so many others, Rafael Nadal—was one of the favourites…
French Open 2020: Stunning teen Iga Swiatek puts out top seed Simona Halep
If former French Open champion Simona Halep won the title again this year, she would return to No1 in the world. And for most, she…
French Open 2020: Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev lead array of young players into Round 4
Much is always made of the age of the best players in the world, the triumvirate of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer—the owners…
French Open 2020: Shapovalov beaten by impressive Carballes Baena in five-set thriller
It was an anticipated feature of this year’s Roland Garros: the cooler, damper conditions and heavier ball were a recipe for long, gruelling matches that…